This year, the UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase will be going virtual! Due to the restrictions and concerns around Covid-19, the event has been reformatted into an online showcase, on...

Abstract: Superconducting qubits provide a promising platform for achieving scalable quantum information processing. However reaching fault tolerance requires further improvements in qubit coherence times, crosstalk suppression, and qubit control. In this talk, I will discuss our efforts in addressing these challenges. First, I will show how encoding a qubit in robust logical states with disjoint...

ABSTRACT: In this session, we will introduce (a) some basic cryptography techniques, then (b) discuss some of the post-quantum cryptography techniques considered for replacing key distribution in a post-quantum world. Also, (c) we will cover a quantum key distribution (QKD) technique known as BB84, which relies on the features of quantum physics to exchange private...